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| | Chanto Restaurant - Gridskipper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) |
 | | This being a press party, naturally we hit the open bar first, where Chanto Martinis were being shaken and strained with reckless abandon. |
 | | (Japanese bartenders always make a big show of the shaking process.) Chanto loves shouchu, and shouchu (literally, burned liquor) is a mild-tasting distilled spirit sometimes referred to as "Japanese vodka." Drunk on its own, shouchu tastes like something between sweetish vodka and medium-dry sake. |
 | | The house cocktail is made from shouchu, chambord, pineapple juice, and Cointreau, and served in a sugar-rimmed champagne flute. |
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